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At around 4:15pm ET yesterday, there was a power outage in the data center where the game server is hosted. Unfortunately, the game database got caught in a bad state when power was lost and so it became corrupted. The game has been down for a little over 8 hours now because I have not been able to repair the database. Since I don't want to keep the game down any longer, I've made the tough call to rollback to the daily backup from 12:05am ET yesterday.

This means that anything that happened after the daily backup happened essentially did not happen. Any bmails you sent, forum posts you made, battles you fought, and so on are all lost. This is the first time in the game's almost 7 year run that I've had to do anything like this, so I'm sorry. I take a lot of pride in the technical stability of the game (it's both my hobby and profession) and have never lost data before, so this is an embarrassing first.

Any chance we could get some kind of compensatory buff? :p Maybe a free buff purchase for a day or a unique buff like an AoE for all bots active yesterday.

I was actually already working on this. :) I've gone ahead and given a 200 duration "Hastened Adventure" buff (10,000% battle speed) to every bot that had been active in the past 30 days. If you already had this buff (I can't find the thread where I announced it, but I think I previously gave it out when the game reached 10k bots), then 200 duration was added onto whatever you had. Hopefully this...hastens your recovery. :)

No I believe my trophy points stand to when I bought my last buff. Also how do you explain the half buff that I used prior to that? Gone aswell :(

It's much more likely you're mistaken about the timeline or confused about how the restore works:

If you spent trophy points after the backup and before the crash, then you have those trophy points back. The game lost the information recording the fact that you spent those trophy points. This also means you lost the buff you bought.

If you spent trophy points before the backup or after the crash, then the game still knows you still spent them. This information was not lost. This also means you did not lose the buff you bought. If anything, the duration of your buff might have gone up if you used it after the backup and before the crash.

Sorry again for the trouble and confusion with this, I know it's frustrating.